Level design & tutorial design

“Generally, I use 3 stages of tutorialisation; Exposition, Validation and Challenge. This is that you show the player the thing you will be teaching them, you let them experience it and use the mechanic themselves in a safe area, and then you give them a challenge to prove they understand how…

Caring about objects. Emotion design: we care about children, we feel sorry for those that suffer an undeserved misfortune, that have been rejected, that are considered lesser.

Thinking about the tension of designing a narrative film and a game about play, and how (among other things I’m doing) I can make play part of the design process…which would then influence the nature of what I create and spill over to the audience/player…

And how the narrative can facilitate playful thoughts…

Reflection

“Everyone designs who designs courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred conditions.” Herbert Simon, The…

Why Craft Intangibles?

On those people who work with the invisible

Emotion design testing: users indicate what emotion they felt on a colour wheel, and when they felt it.

[This is exactly how it felt for so long after my mum died…I didn’t want to feel happiness so I could stay close to her…]

I recently had an epiphany where I realised that I’ve created what gives me pleasure making. That is: pleasure in the making, not the experiencing. wowzers. So, yeah, write what you want to see/read/play not just make.